The shitty thing is that I was all excited to try out the Koolance CPU-360. So I took off the Apogee GTZ SE (and stripped one of the threads again) and put the Koolance 360 on. Got it all back together and fired her up and...
Something is incredibly wrong:

At stock w/out running WCG

At stock trying to run WCG
Temps were headed towards 100 before I shut WCG down.

The shitty thing is that I was all excited to try out the Koolance CPU-360. So I took off the Apogee GTZ SE (and stripped one of the threads again) and put the Koolance 360 on. Got it all back together and fired her up and...
Something is incredibly wrong:

You sure you have the block mounted correctly? Maybe you forgot a little something somewhere. Bubble in the loops? Shake the s**t out of the rad and see. TIM applied correctly?

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Yeah the stripped thread is on the base plate for the Apogee (god that system sucks balls). It would be very difficult to strip the Koolance ones as they are heavy duty

Yep block is mounted nicely with the "in" and "out" hooked-up correctly. No bubbles and she is moving the water through nicely. Used Arctic Silver 5 as always.
Tried tightening the block as well as backing off a bit ~ no change.
I am now taking her back apart and starting over again. I will see how the TIM looks on the block after being in contact with the cpu (curious).

I am also going to rotate the block to see if that helps. I am using BP 1/2" barbs on the wb, don't think that has anything to do with it but it might. You wouldn't think that high water flow would be a bad thing...

Yeah the stripped thread is on the base plate for the Apogee (god that system sucks balls). It would be very difficult to strip the Koolance ones as they are heavy duty

Yep block is mounted nicely with the "in" and "out" hooked-up correctly. No bubbles and she is moving the water through nicely. Used Arctic Silver 5 as always.
Tried tightening the block as well as backing off a bit ~ no change.
I am now taking her back apart and starting over again. I will see how the TIM looks on the block after being in contact with the cpu (curious).

I am also going to rotate the block to see if that helps. I am using BP 1/2" barbs on the wb, don't think that has anything to do with it but it might. You wouldn't think that high water flow would be a bad thing...

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naw, I think you just might have forgot something on the install. Maybe backplate is not mounted correctly causing block to tighten down more on one side or something.